Quotes About Theology

Erigena's argument holds the key to a theological justification (in other words, a theodicy) of shit.

A merda é um problema teológico mais difícil que o mal. Deus ofereceu a liberdade ao homem e,portanto, pode admitir-se que ele não é responsável pelos crimes da humanidade. Mas a existência de merda incube inteiramente àquele que criou o homem, e só a ele.

La mierda es un problema teológico más complejo que el mal. Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre

Sin ningún tipo de preparación teológica, espontáneamente, comprendí desde niño la incompatibilidad entre la mierda y Dios y, de ahí, cuán dudosa resulta la tesis básica de la antropología cristiana según la cual el hombre fue creado a imagen y semejanza de Dios. Una de dos: o el hombre fue creado a semejanza de Dios y entonces Dios tiene tripas, o Dios no tiene tripas y entonces el hombre no se le parece

I don't believe there is a God, I said fiercely, and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Traditional theologians use another word for solidarity: incarnation

Howard Thurman, one of America's greatest theologians said, "By some amazing but vastly creative spiritual insight the slave undertook the redemption of a religion that the master had profaned in his midst.

We saw how Christian Zionism perpetuates a simple but terribly dangerous theological idea, an idea that Christian missiologist Lesslie Newbigin called "the greatest heresy in the history of monotheism," the idea that God chooses some people for exclusive privilege, leaving everyone else in a disfavored (or we might say "dis-graced") status.14 They are the other. They don't belong here. They are in the way. Their rights don't count.

In the end, Christian Zionism reduces Jews to the status of pawns in the fulfillment of end-times prophecies that many Christian preachers love to speak and write about.

The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.

though one can talk significantly about God one can only do so by saying what God is not.

it is likely that even if string theory is right, no one ever will. Strings are so small that a direct observation would be tantamount to reading the text on this page from a distance of 100 light-years: it would require resolving power nearly a billion billion times finer than our current technology allows. Some scientists argue vociferously that a theory so removed from direct empirical testing lies in the realm of philosophy or theology, but not physics.

To survive is to kindle the search for why survival matters. Technicians inevitably become philosophers. Or scientists. Or theologians. Or writers. Or composers. Or musicians. Or artists. Or poets. Or devotees of thousands of variations and combinations of systems of thought and creative expression that promise insight into the very questions that gnaw at our insides long after our stomachs are full.

In as early as the second century, Irenaeus offered theological reflection on Mary as the "second Eve" who, through her radical submission and obedience to God, reversed the deadly consequences of Eve's rebellion.

The cross was the centerpiece of Paul's theology. It wasn't merely one of Paul's messages; it was the message. He taught about other things as well, but whatever he taught was always derived from, and related to, the foundational reality that Jesus Christ died so that sinners would be reconciled to God and forgiven by God.

we have a theology that is Earth-centered and involves a tiny piece of space, and when we step back, when we attain a broader cosmic perspective, some of it seems very small in scale. And in fact a general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less of a universe.

Religious sects, established and marginal, and some newly invented for the purpose, were dissecting the theological implications of the Message. Some thought it was from God, and some from the Devil. Astonishingly, some were even unsure.

Modern Roman Catholicism has no quarrel with the Big Bang, with a Universe 15 billion or so years old, with the first living things arising from prebiological molecules, or with humans evolving

This new project of hers was in experimental theology. But so is all of science she thought.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who revealed himself in the harmony of all being, not in the God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men"—a more subtle religious view embraced by many theologians today.